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Mallory Kuchis When I was younger, my favorite movie was The Wizard of Oz. I watched it constantly and it never got old. Looking back I don’t even think I knew what it was about. I loved how the screen magically turned into color when Dorothy leaves Kansas and is in Oz after the tornado swept her away.

I always looked up to Dorothy because she was so beautiful and she was able to escape only to find that she would rather be home than running away from a wicked witch. Since Dorothy is the main character and I look up to her it might seem evident that she is the character I love but it’s actually the Scarecrow. He’s the character that my family compared me to the most. The Scarecrow, being the one without a brain, was full of energy and an airhead. When I was younger I was the airhead. I had no common sense. My parents would ask me to get something that was right in front of my face and I wouldn’t be able to find it and then when I told them I couldn’t find it they would exclaim, “It’s right there!” I was also the clumsy one as the Scarecrow is in the movie. Always falling and having to pick himself up and put himself back together. I broke many bones when I was younger. Although I needed to go the hospital to put myself back together whereas the Scarecrow could just pack his hay into his shirt, we were still very alike.

The songs are what got me. I loved listening to them and attempting to sing along.

“Somewhere over the rainbow!” One of the first songs in the movie. It starts slow and soft and you can feel the emotions in her voice. You can tell she wants to get away from Kansas and go somewhere, anywhere with Toto. All the other girls loved the Disney princesses but I never got into those movies. I liked them but I liked Dorothy better. It could possibly be because I never connected with the princesses as I did with Dorothy. I feel that now I relate to Dorothy because I want to go far away just to be away from everyone. College will be my escape although I would much rather it be a tornado that brings me to the land of Oz to meet a Scarecrow with no brain, a lion with no courage, and a Tin man with no heart and try to flee from a Wicked Witch trying to steal my ruby slippers. But for now I’ll just have to live with everyone until I’m off to explore my life in college. I will just need to “follow the yellow brick road”.